The Main Reason for the Failure of the Provisional Government

question 62

Multiple Choice

The main reason for the failure of the provisional government in Russia in 1917 was

• A) Lenin's inexperience in actually running a government.
• B) the growing rivalry between Stalin and Trotsky.
• C) the strain placed on the government by the unpopular alliance with Germany.
• D) the public's desire for total victory,which clashed with the government's pacifistic approach.
• E) its inability to satisfy popular demands for an end to the war and for land reform.

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